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No theme, no limits, only members of the current and former editorial crew of CBA celebrating this anniversary issue by doing whichever comics they want! Illustrated haiku poems! Vampires! Cyberpunk! Abstract patterns and ruminations on death! Working with the elderly and trying to find your husband in the realm of the dead! There’s also a seal.

Niklas Asker (comic and cover) Martin Flink Martin Simpson K I Zachopoulos Vassilis Gogtzilas Spyros Verykios Chad Verrill Jamil Mani Mattias Elftorp Susanne Johansson Johan Jergner-Ekervik (illustrations)

Mattias Elftorp's postapocalyptic cyberpunk epic Piracy is liberation is set in the far future in a gigantic city where the inhabitants have no idea that things could be different. It is political theory, filtered through autobiography, masked as fiction in the form of cyberpunk postapocalypse... This book: Erica is a Slave, toiling away at her machine, and she is satisfied with it. She's got family, friends, food on the table. What does she want with freedom? But something is starting to grow within her. A voice calling itself Information, saying there could be more to life. But the Masters will not stand by as the Slaves free themselves, and Erica will soon find out what her machine really does... Second edition, bigger format, revised art.

The world ended in many different ways at once, creating time lines diverging from the straight line that used to be known as history. Self-destruction! All-consuming fire! Undeath! Catastrophe! These are visions of the futures that may yet come after the end of life as you know it. The expansion of an exhibition held at AltCom 2014. Includes downloadable industrial/harsh noise soundtrack, available upon purchase: Dekoder, Nimam Spregleda, Feberdröm, Knullkraft & Concrete Threat.

Once more, Wormgod explores the different ways the world ended. From a hindsight perspective we delve into various scenarios to pinpoint the details of the apocalypse. Comics and illustrated texts from the minds behind Wormgod, a roadmap of things to navigate to come out on the other side of the future. Also a furious description of the world we live and die in now, with all its horrors. Includes industrial/harsh noise soundtrack available for download upon purchase, featuring: SYSTEMET NIMAM SPREGLEDA FACTORY FARMING TRAUMA COMMAND FEBERDRÖM KOEFF

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS IN C'EST BON ANTHOLOGY vol. 3 James Jean (cover) Susanne Johansson Koren Shadmi Yvan Alagbé Stefano Ricci Andrea Bruno Gorg Mallia (text) Jessica Kurki Mattias Elftorp Daniel Novakovic

New issue of the international comics anthology CBA: Have you ever had to just stop what you’re doing and go: “Wait, is this a dream?” When the unknown starts bleeding into reality and you are forced to question your sanity, if just a little bit. You know the sort of thing that happens in dreams that makes you sure it’s just a dream? How do you cope when it happens in the waking world?

Few non-genital body parts are the object of nightmares and obsessions as much as fingers and teeth. Focusing on single body parts might seem hard when telling a story, or evoking feelings in art, but not regarding fingers and teeth. We all have some story connected to them. The human touch and the animal bite, desirable or dangerous. In this issue, we zoom in on the most bodily representations of anxiety and vulnerability.

Latest issue of the international comics anthology series: Step into the world of KOLAŻ, where images are discovered, altered, and transformed — merged with sketches, digital twists, and layered reconfigurations. It’s a creative process of cutting, rearranging, and reimagining, where fragments are pulled apart and pieced back together. Story themselves are patchworks of moments stitched into something new, where unexpected contrasts may emerge and magic happens when each reader brings their own meanings, their own interpretations, their own fragments to the pasteboard. Comics by: Pavol Bratský, Mattias Elftorp, Tom Mortimer, Damir Stojnić von Ktonsky, Susanne Johansson, Markus Samnell, Julia Nascimento, Adam Boman, Mette Norrie, Helena Menanda, Aiden Kvarnström, Mileta Mijatović, Mårten Edman, Miku Maria Gustavsson. Cover & main editor: Kinga Dukaj.

Latest issue of the international comics anthology series asks the questions: What’s in THE BOX? Who wants to know? How big is it? Where is it? Is it on its way somewhere? Why does it matter? Why can’t you know what’s in it? Or do you know? This issue is a box filled with stories. But what is THE BOX if you think outside the box? Comics by: Mattias Elftorp, Miguel Santos, Susanne Johansson, Sara Alma Safije Sheikhi, Manuel Rodriguez Navarro, Josef Noren. Text & illustration by: Eileen Laurie. Cover & main editor: Mattias Elftorp.

You have entered into the weird forest. You are one of its creatures now. Welcome. You will never leave. The only path laid out before you, your only choice, is to go deeper, deeper, until you are completely and utterly lost. Not until then can you find who you are and where you’re going. If you’re lucky. Comics by: Tomasz Kontny [PL] & Tomxyz [PL], Mattias Elftorp [SE], Michael Elton Crye [US], Athanasía Aarniosuo [FI], Knut Larsson [SE], Susanne Johansson [SE], Svalan Sörblom [SE], Xico Santos [PT/SE]. Text & illustration by: Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Cover & main editor: Mattias Elftorp [SE].

One day, Gregor Samsa woke up and found himself transformed into an insect. Do you think that bugged him? Puns aside, insects are fascinating. Many people find them disgusting and associate them with filth and decay, but without them we wouldn’t have anything to eat, considering they’re also the main pollinators of our plants. How could we survive in a world with no bugs? Then again, fleas were quite significant in spreading the plague. Insects are hailed as the protein of the future and shunned as vectors of disease. They’re pests, pets and objects of fear and fascination. But they aren’t the only kind of bug out there. If you’re sick, you’ve caught a bug. If your computer program doesn’t run as intended, it’s due to a bug. If you experience a glitch in the matrix, there might be a bug in the very fabric of our reality. If something is bugging you, you can’t stop thinking about it. And remember: shrimp are also bugs. Comics by: Aiden Kvarnström [SE], The Chemical Jam [IT], Matteo Galasso [IT], Angela Schmold [CA], Monica Nielsen [SE], Sandra G [RS], Adrián A. Astorgano [ES], Jon Högman [SE], Susanne Johansson [SE], Vlad Gaast [PT], Jason Song Quinn [US], Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Text & illustration by: Mattias Elftorp [SE]. Cover & main editor: Aiden Kvarnström [SE].

In C'est Bon Anthology vol. 11 - Variations, Sofia Falkenhem, Martin Flink, and Jamil Mani interpret each others' previous CBA contributions in a threesome of playful trolls (THE BOY), urban totem animals (DUSK), and personal purgatory (ROOM). Allan Haverholm counterpoints Mattias Elftorp's short story VIOLENCE with SEX, and Oskar Aspman remixes Niklas Asker's critically acclaimed SECOND THOUGHTS as SCND THGHTS. In total, volume 11 features work by Oskar Aspman (SE), Mattias Elftorp (SE), Sofia Falkenhem (SE), Martin Flink (DK), Allan Haverholm (DK), Susanne Johansson (SE) and Jamil Mani (SE). The best short stories by some of the most talented graphic artists out there.

Set a year after Information Wants to be Free, we follow Pirate and Information as they rejoin the fight for freedom in the City that's become synonymous with the world to its inhabitants. Back in the free and illegal flow of information after a year without it, Pirate and Information are almost overwhelmed, but that's ok. It's part of the high. Technograph visits the old people in the desert outside the city, and a whale passes through the City's airspace. This all leads up to an event of great importance for the resistance. It is the beginning of something new. A seed for the future.

Another powerful story in the piracy is liberation saga. Erica is a slave, toiling away at the machine. She has family, friends and food on the table. What does she want with freedom? But something is happening. A voice calling itself Information is saying there could be more. More than the chains and wires of the machine. The Masters don´t take kindly to rebellion though, and soon Erica will find out what the machine actually does...

More inspiring cyberpunk postapocalypse! The Class 4 Drivers go on strike, but taking on the Work Control police force is dangerous. Someone could die! This book also contains the follow-up on the events in book 001: Information Wants to be Free. What consequences are there to being a copy of oneself? And what exactly is Metamagic?

What happens when the rules suddenly change, when law and order are put out of the picture? When the police can do nothing but watch as people party in the streets? What happens when even the rules of reality can be broken? What does it mean to go Outside for the first time? These are stories from the Free Section and beyond...

The Free Section is being evicted and violence erupts, on both societal and individual levels. Information_copy has been captured by the Infopolice, but can their interrogator break her? The keepers of the violence monopoly do their best as usual to enforce order and control and they are stronger, have better weapons. So who will win in the end? Can there even be a winner?

The gods are real, but most of them are dead. Pirate learns this and many more secrets from the anarchists in the desert as he gets his new assignment. Something is moving on the net. Some kind of entities seem to be interfering with its users. Are these signs of the birth of a new god, or is it something else entirely? And how does it affect the plans for the Information Upgrade that the anarchists are planning? We also get some insight into everyday religious life in the City through the surveillance cameras of a Shopping Temple...

More Spiders! More adventures in the deeper reaches of the information sea! Also in this issue: A look into the halls of power (what does it take to become Master of the Week?)! Life on the street level (what's life like when you don't need to pay rent?)! Theological discussions (is it ok to kill a potential semi-god?)! Timetravel (can Technograph change the past?)! Will Purple survive beta-testing the Information Upgrade (and what might she wake up by doing it?)? Don't miss the conclusion to the Spiders story!

Pirate is an information addict. When he recieves a cry for help: 'Information wants to be free', he has to find out what it means. Only problem is that the infopolice are hot on his trail, so he has to run and avoid falling in the same trap that Information did. Piracy is liberation is set in the far future. After the apocalypse came true (not necesserily the biblical one, but the one that it was an interpretation of), the world and humankind has restarted. They are still taking their first steps, but unsure of what direction to go. The old world is dead, long live the new flesh! Third printing of book 001 of the series.

A self-contained side story to the cyberpunk postapocalypse of Piracy is Liberation. Spyware goes out of the City to fulfill a lifelong dream, but she finds more than she expected when she meets the ancient anarchists living there. They tell her a story from before the City even existed. A story about the death of God. Bonus material in this book: The Lord of Flies from C’est Bon 1. Contains the finalist story from the 4th Morning International Comics Competition: SPYWARE

Another installment in Mattias Elftorp's postapocalyptic cyberpunk epic. Piracy is liberation is set in the far future in a gigantic city where the inhabitants have no idea that things could be different. It is political theory, filtered through autobiography, masked as fiction in the form of cyberpunk postapocalypse... This book: Having upgraded her consciousness to the next level, Purple decides to do something about the religiously capitalist leadership of the City and stages a one-woman revolution... This book can, but does not have to, be read as a hypertext, i.e. a set of linked texts. You also want to read it because it contains sex, violence and drug use.